by Art (Lao Du) | Jul 15, 2019 | General
Maybe I live in another world, another time. I got a friend who has started calling me Retro Man, but I don’t care. I know I can’t bring back Whitney Reed (and amateur tennis from the late 50’s), but I can’t identify with any of these keh-zillionaires on those...
by Art (Lao Du) | Jun 28, 2019 | General
We’ve got to get rid of these techno-trick bats and those flimflam artists using them. Anyone who plays with pips out, for example, should be expelled … and propelled out of the club. Banished for life. Post haste. The only...
by Art (Lao Du) | Jun 24, 2019 | General
Ya know what I can’t stand anymore? It’s the continuous and unrelenting apologies you get from the guy across the ping pong table from you who hits one on the net that dribbles over, or hits the ball on the edge of the table...
by Art (Lao Du) | Jun 18, 2019 | General
I play well against the moribund, the sclerotic, the prepubertal and just about all the cachexic gomers I meet. But I don’t do so hot against people who can actually hit the ball back to me with some consistency. Between you and...
by Art (Lao Du) | Jun 15, 2019 | General
Recently, after the group met for our weekly session, it occurred to me that maybe my insistence on Pongers playing a certain way – MY WAY – was not the Right Way. Maybe My Way Or The Highway is not the most prudent or tactful approach...
by Art (Lao Du) | Jun 11, 2019 | General
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is, as it’s name suggests, is a form of talk therapy which combines elements of thinking (cognitive) and behavioral disciplines. It grew out of behavioral theories as developed by John Watson and B.F. Skinner, and the cognitive...
by Art (Lao Du) | May 25, 2019 | General
In Part I we met the “hole puncher” – my emotionally intense goombah who took fist to wall when things weren’t proceeding … shall we say, swimmingly. Now I’ll introduce you to another example of a guy with ‘control’ issues but with...
by Dave | May 13, 2019 | General
This post is courtesy of Bruce Ballard, a 3P Board Member, and first appeared on his blog, Parking Suns, on April 7, 2019. Thank you for sharing this with us, Bruce! A few years ago, the Parkinson’s Foundation published an online article titled “Improving Brain...
by Dave | Apr 29, 2019 | General
Thanks so much to those who were able to donate to our walk this past Saturday! It meant a lot to all of us and it was a wonderful event. (For those who were not able to, but would like to it is still possible here: Margie’s 3P Unity Walk page.) We had over 20...
by Art (Lao Du) | Apr 28, 2019 | General
I was playing this guy in the club in the side room about 4 years ago and it was a close match. After a lengthy rally, I won the point with a fantastic decisive forehand shot that should have sent a sonic boom across the main room and toward the center of...
